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On July 22 2011 12:29 StarStruck wrote: That is true; however, you cannot issue a press release until the said deal is done. While they cannot issue a press release about signing Puma, they could have issued a statement saying something along the lines of, "EG has not signed Puma yet, but have been in negotiations with him and hope he joins EG soon"
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On July 21 2011 15:00 Milkis wrote: Update: TSL Coach Lee Woon Jae explains his stance
Coach Lee Woon Jae of TSL talked with TeamLiquid, trying to clear up some of the misunderstandings while explaining the situation from his point of view:
"It's not just TSL, but most Starcraft II teams right now run on trust and faith instead of contracts. Because of many similar occurances [to Puma's case], we plan to make contracts mandatory.
Puma was with us for ten months, and where we provided him and his teammates with a good practice environment, food, etc, and developed him as a player. The team didn't take any of the prize money a player earned, all of it went to the player. Unfortunately, Puma wished to join EG so we released him.
To acquire a player, contacting the original team regarding a transfer is a natural courtesy and the way things should be done. That is why I am very angry, and why it is huge topic in Korea right now. The Korean SC II association is preparing some measures, and I believe something similar won't happen again.
EG claims that Puma approached them first regarding joining their team, but this is not true. As I know it, EG's owner contacted Puma first. Not only Puma, but other Korean players."
Well understandable... Seriously is it any wonder nobody trusts InControl anymore? That guy has been with every shady project in the history of Starcraft II. EG lost a fan today.
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On July 22 2011 12:34 Keeler wrote:Show nested quote +On July 22 2011 12:26 Mohdoo wrote:On July 22 2011 12:25 StarStruck wrote:On July 22 2011 12:22 LegendaryZ wrote:
The insults and overall attitude are pretty uncalled for and it's already been explained why he's not a reporter and why he isn't to be held to the same journalistic standards. If you want to fault anyone, fault whoever originally released the information (and no it wasn't Milkis). Milkis just translated an article and linked us to the source he translated. He never represented anything else in the OP apart from the article that he posted. The response by Coach Lee was a later addition when it was released and I'm sure when EG provides a written response, the OP will be edited to include that as well.
The problem right now is the fact that there is in fact no written response from EG and therefore no "Other side of the story." to tell despite the fact that EG is clearly aware of the situation. Instead of ranting on Weapon of Choice, they should have just had someone from their staff write a response either on this thread, the source thread, or their website so it could be quoted. It isn't Milkis' job to go fact checking while translating an article nor is it his responsibility to run any form of damage control on EG's behalf either by sitting on already public information or speaking on their behalf. From EG's standpoint. There is a logic reason for not commenting. Puma hasn't signed the dotted line as of yet, so until the deal is finalized they have nothing to comment. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/ErXIG.png) During Weapon of Choice, Alex made it sound like he wished milkis tried to get a statement from EG... Thats not how you go about trying to get a statement.
Maybe not, but scoots clearly saw it, so he can protest that milkis never gave them warning or ask for their comment.
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On July 22 2011 12:34 Keeler wrote:Show nested quote +On July 22 2011 12:26 Mohdoo wrote:On July 22 2011 12:25 StarStruck wrote:On July 22 2011 12:22 LegendaryZ wrote:
The insults and overall attitude are pretty uncalled for and it's already been explained why he's not a reporter and why he isn't to be held to the same journalistic standards. If you want to fault anyone, fault whoever originally released the information (and no it wasn't Milkis). Milkis just translated an article and linked us to the source he translated. He never represented anything else in the OP apart from the article that he posted. The response by Coach Lee was a later addition when it was released and I'm sure when EG provides a written response, the OP will be edited to include that as well.
The problem right now is the fact that there is in fact no written response from EG and therefore no "Other side of the story." to tell despite the fact that EG is clearly aware of the situation. Instead of ranting on Weapon of Choice, they should have just had someone from their staff write a response either on this thread, the source thread, or their website so it could be quoted. It isn't Milkis' job to go fact checking while translating an article nor is it his responsibility to run any form of damage control on EG's behalf either by sitting on already public information or speaking on their behalf. From EG's standpoint. There is a logic reason for not commenting. Puma hasn't signed the dotted line as of yet, so until the deal is finalized they have nothing to comment. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/ErXIG.png) During Weapon of Choice, Alex made it sound like he wished milkis tried to get a statement from EG... Thats not how you go about trying to get a statement.
He doesn't fucking work for CNN
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A simple question, who found out about this by entire issue by chancing upon this post? Where do you go to get your starcraft related NEWS?
TL. Community. Based. Journalism.
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On July 22 2011 12:36 NightAngel wrote: A simple question, who found out about this by entire issue by chancing upon this post? Where do you go to get your starcraft related NEWS?
TL. Community. Based. Journalism.
This is a very strong point that absolutely has not been made before.
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On July 22 2011 12:35 Krehlmar wrote:On July 21 2011 15:00 Milkis wrote:Update: TSL Coach Lee Woon Jae explains his stance Coach Lee Woon Jae of TSL talked with TeamLiquid, trying to clear up some of the misunderstandings while explaining the situation from his point of view: Show nested quote +"It's not just TSL, but most Starcraft II teams right now run on trust and faith instead of contracts. Because of many similar occurances [to Puma's case], we plan to make contracts mandatory.
Puma was with us for ten months, and where we provided him and his teammates with a good practice environment, food, etc, and developed him as a player. The team didn't take any of the prize money a player earned, all of it went to the player. Unfortunately, Puma wished to join EG so we released him.
To acquire a player, contacting the original team regarding a transfer is a natural courtesy and the way things should be done. That is why I am very angry, and why it is huge topic in Korea right now. The Korean SC II association is preparing some measures, and I believe something similar won't happen again.
EG claims that Puma approached them first regarding joining their team, but this is not true. As I know it, EG's owner contacted Puma first. Not only Puma, but other Korean players." Well understandable... Seriously is it any wonder nobody trusts InControl anymore? That guy has been with every shady project in the history of Starcraft II. EG lost a fan today.
maybe i missed something, but what exactly does incontrol have to do with any of this other than being contracted by EG already??
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On July 22 2011 12:35 Krehlmar wrote:On July 21 2011 15:00 Milkis wrote:Update: TSL Coach Lee Woon Jae explains his stance Coach Lee Woon Jae of TSL talked with TeamLiquid, trying to clear up some of the misunderstandings while explaining the situation from his point of view: Show nested quote +"It's not just TSL, but most Starcraft II teams right now run on trust and faith instead of contracts. Because of many similar occurances [to Puma's case], we plan to make contracts mandatory.
Puma was with us for ten months, and where we provided him and his teammates with a good practice environment, food, etc, and developed him as a player. The team didn't take any of the prize money a player earned, all of it went to the player. Unfortunately, Puma wished to join EG so we released him.
To acquire a player, contacting the original team regarding a transfer is a natural courtesy and the way things should be done. That is why I am very angry, and why it is huge topic in Korea right now. The Korean SC II association is preparing some measures, and I believe something similar won't happen again.
EG claims that Puma approached them first regarding joining their team, but this is not true. As I know it, EG's owner contacted Puma first. Not only Puma, but other Korean players." Well understandable... Seriously is it any wonder nobody trusts InControl anymore? That guy has been with every shady project in the history of Starcraft II. EG lost a fan today.
Wait, what? InControl isn't even mentioned in any of this.
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so it seems that AG never heard the phrase dont shoot the messenger
ironically, the one thing Milkis said that AG and Wheat dont seems to get which all these boil down to, you don't get it 
they dont get that there's a way of doing stuff in Korea which is different than US, luckily FXO and Fnatic DO get it though, props to them
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On July 22 2011 12:20 Taug wrote:Show nested quote +On July 22 2011 12:18 DrNK.Zeal wrote:On July 22 2011 12:17 Tektos wrote:On July 22 2011 12:13 MonkSEA wrote:On July 22 2011 12:07 tkRage wrote:On July 22 2011 12:06 Taug wrote: If it's true that puma basically betrayed his team for money, then I have lost all respect for this kid. It's really sad to see when a team treats someone like family and they go and SELLOUT. Betrayed? How is it betrayal? Person X has a job. Person Y offers a much superior job. Person X takes it. What's odd about this? This is a job, there's money and benefits involved. On the other hand Person X was a nobody. Person X was approached by Person Y because Person X had some potential. Person Y extracted the potential out of Person X with his own money and time, and then once Person X has control of his potential, he goes to Person Z because they offered him more money to be on their team. Understand how it could be seen as betrayal? If there is no legally binding contract between Person X and Person Y why should Person X feel obligated to hold back his own career from developing further just because Person Y did him a favor in the past? It's a concept known as loyalty. TSL benefits from puma being a part of their team. It's all about money these days, ppl have no self-dignity.
If you were the lead sales person at a top 10 company, would you be happy if your employer paid you the same amount as they paid the cleaning lady and expected you to stay working for them just out of loyalty? Or would you move to another company that was willing to pay you what you're worth?
To me it is an utter sign of lack of respect to yourself if you're working for less than you're worth (unless you're doing it for charity, but TSL isn't a charity so that doesn't count). If both teams were offering the SAME THING (same travel opportunities, same practice regimes, same pay, etc.) then YES changing teams would be a a bad move just based on the loyalty between PuMa and TSL but the fact is EG have probably given him an offer that is leaps and bounds ahead of what TSL offer. Telling someone they have no dignity because they aspire to advance their career in esports in my opinion is an extreme contradiction.
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On July 22 2011 12:35 Krehlmar wrote:On July 21 2011 15:00 Milkis wrote:Update: TSL Coach Lee Woon Jae explains his stance Coach Lee Woon Jae of TSL talked with TeamLiquid, trying to clear up some of the misunderstandings while explaining the situation from his point of view: Show nested quote +"It's not just TSL, but most Starcraft II teams right now run on trust and faith instead of contracts. Because of many similar occurances [to Puma's case], we plan to make contracts mandatory.
Puma was with us for ten months, and where we provided him and his teammates with a good practice environment, food, etc, and developed him as a player. The team didn't take any of the prize money a player earned, all of it went to the player. Unfortunately, Puma wished to join EG so we released him.
To acquire a player, contacting the original team regarding a transfer is a natural courtesy and the way things should be done. That is why I am very angry, and why it is huge topic in Korea right now. The Korean SC II association is preparing some measures, and I believe something similar won't happen again.
EG claims that Puma approached them first regarding joining their team, but this is not true. As I know it, EG's owner contacted Puma first. Not only Puma, but other Korean players." Well understandable... Seriously is it any wonder nobody trusts InControl anymore? That guy has been with every shady project in the history of Starcraft II. EG lost a fan today.
This right here is a pretty good example of why if you're going to make a thread like this you should at least update the OP as you get more information.
Of course it's also a good example of just how much TL loves jumping to conclusions and making grandiose statements.
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Jesus fucking christ. Can some one update the OP already? The amount of people bringing in our dated info to start a fight is getting sickening. Milkis it's been a while please update
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On July 22 2011 12:35 Krehlmar wrote:On July 21 2011 15:00 Milkis wrote:Update: TSL Coach Lee Woon Jae explains his stance Coach Lee Woon Jae of TSL talked with TeamLiquid, trying to clear up some of the misunderstandings while explaining the situation from his point of view: Show nested quote +"It's not just TSL, but most Starcraft II teams right now run on trust and faith instead of contracts. Because of many similar occurances [to Puma's case], we plan to make contracts mandatory.
Puma was with us for ten months, and where we provided him and his teammates with a good practice environment, food, etc, and developed him as a player. The team didn't take any of the prize money a player earned, all of it went to the player. Unfortunately, Puma wished to join EG so we released him.
To acquire a player, contacting the original team regarding a transfer is a natural courtesy and the way things should be done. That is why I am very angry, and why it is huge topic in Korea right now. The Korean SC II association is preparing some measures, and I believe something similar won't happen again.
EG claims that Puma approached them first regarding joining their team, but this is not true. As I know it, EG's owner contacted Puma first. Not only Puma, but other Korean players." Well understandable... Seriously is it any wonder nobody trusts InControl anymore? That guy has been with every shady project in the history of Starcraft II. EG lost a fan today.
Alex Garfield earlier on weapon of choice openly admitted that they approached Puma first and not the other way around. I see no value of them lieing about that considering that they released no official statement other than what Alex said on weapon of choice. And what does incontrol have to do with anything? He's just a player for their team and probably was in no shape or form involved so why bring him up?
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On July 22 2011 12:40 moonmeh wrote:Jesus fucking christ. Can some one update the OP already? The amount of people bringing in our dated info to start a fight is getting sickening. Milkis it's been a while please update 
I'm pretty exhausted right now so yeah i'm sorry
updated. let me know if there's anything else you guys think is important to update, but i think those two are the main points.
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On July 22 2011 12:38 sandyph wrote: *snip*
they dont get that there's a way of doing stuff in Korea which is different than US, luckily FXO and Fnatic DO get it though, props to them
Korea doesn't get it that the world is a competitive place. Luckily, there's EG and other teams willing to pay a player his worth to enlighten them.
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On July 22 2011 12:40 moonmeh wrote:Jesus fucking christ. Can some one update the OP already? The amount of people bringing in our dated info to start a fight is getting sickening. Milkis it's been a while please update 
WTF do you want it updated with anyway?
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On July 22 2011 12:35 BigLighthouse wrote:Show nested quote +On July 22 2011 11:45 zwert wrote: EG is dead to me. I like Idra's Insight and Gameplay when it gets to a late game and will still watch and support, but i can only shake my head when thinking about this Company. I don't think there were any vicious thoughts by approaching Puma. The Problem is that they were doing it the American way. This won't work in most Asian Countrys and far-east Europe. You have to show respect (what they think respect is) and follow their customs. When Milkis said EG should write an apology and Alex was against it it showed the whole Weapon of Choice was for nothing. This has nothing to do with being wrong, it's an etiquette. But fine walk around with your cowboy boots and guns and do it your way. The sad part is they don't need Korea, like djWHEAT said esports is big enough in the west. (for now)
Also for the Journalism thing. Where exactly do you live? There is no nonbiased jornalism even in the biggest Media ...especially there. And i don't think he should be obligated to get in contact to both sides. Like he said, TSL responded while some in EG rather said "no comment" No offence man, but I dont think EG should apologise to TSL either. If what they said on Weapon of Choice is true, that Puma himself told them that he should be the one to talk to coach Lee not them, then they were completely right to follow his lead on it. People keep going on about being culturally sensitive, well maybe Puma should have been a little more helpful in this respect. Im not blaming the guy because he doesnt deserve it, but if you as a team (EG) specifically ask a Korean what to do about the player's (Puma's) managment (TSL) and he tells you that he should be doing the contacting then you might just believe him and that he is maybe in line with his own bloody culture! TSL has no place expecting an apology from EG.
Your entire scenario STILL comes after they approached him, which is the crux of the problem.
TSL has every right to expect an apology. I never liked EG much anyway, but now I just straight up dislike them.
Alex ran in circles trying to defend himself.
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... and now Geoff the incontrol freak Robinson comes into the equation. Seriously guys? Do we really have to take it that far?
Show nested quote + Coach Lee Woon Jae of TSL talked with TeamLiquid, trying to clear up some of the misunderstandings while explaining the situation from his point of view:
"It's not just TSL, but most Starcraft II teams right now run on trust and faith instead of contracts. Because of many similar occurances [to Puma's case], we plan to make contracts mandatory. Puma was with us for ten months, and where we provided him and his teammates with a good practice environment, food, etc, and developed him as a player. The team didn't take any of the prize money a player earned, all of it went to the player. Unfortunately, Puma wished to join EG so we released him. To acquire a player, contacting the original team regarding a transfer is a natural courtesy and the way things should be done. That is why I am very angry, and why it is huge topic in Korea right now. The Korean SC II association is preparing some measures, and I believe something similar won't happen again. EG claims that Puma approached them first regarding joining their team, but this is not true. As I know it, EG's owner contacted Puma first. Not only Puma, but other Korean players."
This was expected. You see a loophole. You close it.
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On July 22 2011 12:39 TheButtonmen wrote:Show nested quote +On July 22 2011 12:35 Krehlmar wrote:On July 21 2011 15:00 Milkis wrote:Update: TSL Coach Lee Woon Jae explains his stance Coach Lee Woon Jae of TSL talked with TeamLiquid, trying to clear up some of the misunderstandings while explaining the situation from his point of view: "It's not just TSL, but most Starcraft II teams right now run on trust and faith instead of contracts. Because of many similar occurances [to Puma's case], we plan to make contracts mandatory.
Puma was with us for ten months, and where we provided him and his teammates with a good practice environment, food, etc, and developed him as a player. The team didn't take any of the prize money a player earned, all of it went to the player. Unfortunately, Puma wished to join EG so we released him.
To acquire a player, contacting the original team regarding a transfer is a natural courtesy and the way things should be done. That is why I am very angry, and why it is huge topic in Korea right now. The Korean SC II association is preparing some measures, and I believe something similar won't happen again.
EG claims that Puma approached them first regarding joining their team, but this is not true. As I know it, EG's owner contacted Puma first. Not only Puma, but other Korean players." Well understandable... Seriously is it any wonder nobody trusts InControl anymore? That guy has been with every shady project in the history of Starcraft II. EG lost a fan today. This right here is a pretty good example of why if you're going to make a thread like this you should at least update the OP as you get more information. Of course it's also a good example of just how much TL loves jumping to conclusions and making grandiose statements.
One of these days, our little witch hunts will turn out to be an eSports Di Vinci Code.
Tom Hanks: "Hot_Bid...you are the direct decendent....of Jesus Christ"
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